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Harry Whitehouse <harry@envmgr.com> wrote:
> I'm doing a simple GET to a server, and the data portion of the get string
> contains some \u0081 and \u0080 characters used for control.

> Somewhere in the URL MyURL = new URL(".. get operation");          the Java
> runtime is converting these characters to x3F.  This is some sort of
> encoding conversion, because the range of values between x80 and x9F is
> reserved for other Unicode mischief.

[snip]
> This is a HARD one!   Anyone have any thoughts?

You can't send binary data (legally) with a GET.  The characters allowed in
a GET are limited mostly to alphanumerics and excludes space and plus.  Look up
URL encoding, I think there's a Java method that handles it for you.  Any
non-alphanumerics in a GET have to be encoded, ie a space would become a
+ or %20, and a + would become %2B, and an 0x80 would be %80.

I'd just use a POST instead of a GET method.  You can then pass your binary
data into the server via the server's STDIN.

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